On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, R P Herrold wrote: > > Customarily, /etc/named.conf is VERY site dependent, and is > seperately configured. > Indeed the Red Hat bind RPM's do not include a named.conf, unless you install the caching-nameserver package as well which has a very simple named.conf for a caching/recursing only setup: --- SNIP [nathan@askew nathan]$ yum -d 0 info caching-nameserver Name : caching-nameserver Arch : noarch Version: 7.2 Release: 7 Size : 4.10 kB Group : System Environment/Daemons Repo : Red Hat Linux @ UGA 9 - i386 - Base Summary: The configuration files for setting up a caching name server. Description: The caching-nameserver package includes the configuration files that will make BIND, the DNS name server, act as a simple caching nameserver. Many users on dialup connections use this package along with BIND for this purpose. If you would like to set up a caching name server, you will need to install the caching-nameserver package and bind. --- END -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
